Homemade Salsa Recipe

Yes, you can make your own salsa, it only takes a few ingredients and few minutes.

Ingredients

1-1/2 to 2 lbs plum tomatoes
1-1/2 tbspn fresh cilantro, minced
2 tbspn fresh lime juice (bottled juice will alter taste)
1 onion, large, minced
2 jalapeno chile peppers*, seeded and chopped
salt to taste

Directions

Seed and dice the tomatoes and place in a medium bowl. Peel, seed, and mince the jalapeno peppers and add to the bowl, along with the minced onion. Set aside a large spoonful of the minced onion to place on top of the completed salsa. To the tomatoes and jalapeno chile peppers add the lime juice and cilantro (or coriander.) Stir in the salt, top with remaining minced onion, cover and refrigerate for a few hours or overnight before serving. Serve with sturdy chips.

You may want to try a different and stronger flavor by adding a minced clove of garlic.

Hint:
*When peeling jalapeno peppers wear rubber gloves to keep your hands from burning.
*This salsa is wonderful on a buttered toasted English muffin.
*Instead of catsup for your hamburger, try this salsa instead. Also good with franks on a bun.

Recommended cookbook: Chef Mark Miller has included salsas that run the heat level gamut from mild to hot. In addition to the salsas you expect to see there are fruit salsas, tropical salsas, very exotic salsas plus some real surprises. The recipes include the heat scale so you won't get a mouth full of heat when you are expecting something milder. This description says this is a paperback book with 160 pages, mine is hard cover with 148 pages. I am curious to know what the additional pages include. I had to share the book because the cover is so striking.